After returning this time, Meng Zhou and Bai Zhi's lives in Aurora Cave became increasingly peaceful and regular.

Bai Zhi started the final preparations. After returning this time, she no longer continued to hunt those water monsters, but began to retreat and meditate.

After successfully surviving the calamity, the two Mysterious Spirit Turtles, whose real bodies were already extremely large, sank into the water like two stubborn stones, and quietly recovered and digested the fruits.

And the golden armored spirit insects, which number as many as 16,000, are getting closer and closer to taking the final step with the continuous feeding of essence and blood.

Meng Zhou himself, while practicing non-stop, is also continuing to improve the Aurora Cave.

This has not only allowed the aura quality of Aurora Cave to be continuously improved, but also the mastery of the spiritual blending of various materials, as well as the attainments in talisman formations and rope knots have become more and more sophisticated.

…

In the blink of an eye, several months passed.

The fifth day of June, afternoon.

Cultivation progress +300, fourth level of elixir formation 7720/10,000;

Third level Spring Water Sutra +3000, Master 96,000/120,000;

Black Turtle Bearing Monument True Skill +3000, Master 84,300/120,000.

After finishing this retreat, Meng Zhou checked Bai Zhi's status again as usual, "How are you? How do you feel?"

When Bai Zhi heard this, she smiled and said, "That's enough."

"real?"

"Um."

After confirming that Bai Zhi had completed all the preparations and accumulation and could take the final step at any time, Meng Zhou didn't waste a moment and immediately took Bai Zhi out of the Aurora Cave.

About a day later, Meng Zhou had already crossed the thousand-meter rock barrier alone and returned to the Aurora Cave.

Soon, Meng Zhou appeared on the central stone island in a quiet room where Bai Zhi had been retreating for a long time.

The next moment, with a thought in Meng Zhou's mind, he moved the white zhi that was sitting cross-legged and meditating in his sea of ​​consciousness, deep in concentration, and placed it quietly on the stone couch in the quiet room.

The whole process was extremely smooth.

It did not cause any trouble to Bai Zhi who had just finished forming the elixir and was entering deep meditation.

Meng Zhou valued Bai Zhi's breakthrough this time far more than the two Xuanling Turtles.

However, all the preparations were done quietly in advance.

Coupled with the sufficient accumulation of Bai Zhi, her breakthrough this time was completely natural without any setbacks.

What Bai Zhi was worried about before was never whether she would encounter any trouble in her own breakthrough, but the safety issues during the breakthrough.

After Meng Zhou solemnly stated that there was no need to have such concerns, Bai Zhi really gave up her safety concerns based on her complete trust in Meng Zhou.

From Bai Zhi's point of view, the whole process can be called "smooth". Without using any external resources, he successfully broke through and advanced from foundation building to pill formation.

This was also Meng Zhou's own feeling. Not only was the whole process smooth, there were no unexpected twists and turns.

He also successfully "fished" with the help of Bai Zhi's breakthrough this time, so there were seven more complete bones of the third-order demon in the spirit gourd space.

"In just half a year, as many as twenty-four third-level monsters have fallen into my hands." Meng Zhou only made a rough calculation in his mind, but he couldn't help but be shocked.

With the help of the huge commotion caused by several calamities, a total of twenty third-order monsters were "caught".

And in the water deep underground, there were four third-order monsters quietly folded into his hands.

Every third-level monster, even if its bloodline is outstanding, still needs decades or even hundreds of years to grow.

Regardless of the large number of third-level demons in the third-level evil veins, they have been accumulated over a long period of time.

Now, in just six months, more than 20 heads have been lost quietly in my own hands. The key is that it has not caused any adverse consequences.

"It seems that boiling frogs in warm water is the best way to weaken the power of monsters."

"However, there is a premise for this, that is, every hunt must be decisive and concealed.

All third-order great demons who have witnessed me at close range must die, and relevant information cannot be spread through them to alert other third-level great demons."

“In addition, this is also an extreme micro-manipulation, and it is easy to cross the line if you are not careful.

If we don’t have a means like a transparent moon mirror, we can’t accurately grasp the changes in the outside world, and it will easily be self-defeating.”

After placing Bai Zhi, Meng Zhou began to process the newly harvested third-order demon corpse bones into various spiritual materials, with these thoughts running through his mind.

About a month later, Bai Zhi came out of the quiet room.

"How is it? How do you feel?" Meng Zhou asked.

The Bai Zhi at this moment has changed a lot compared to the time when the foundation was established.

On the one hand, the demeanor has obviously changed and become more outstanding, but in Meng Zhou's eyes, it is more in line with the surroundings.

Every move he makes exudes a natural charm that is in perfect harmony with the world around him.

Meng Zhou thought of a word, "Heaven and man are one."

When the foundation was being built, the presence of Angelica dahurica was more abrupt and stronger than now.

If she were to show her true self at that time, the first impression that would come to people, apart from being stunning, would be that "she is absolutely extraordinary."

While Meng Zhou was observing carefully, Bai Zhi also shared with Meng Zhou the various changes brought about by this breakthrough.

First of all, the elixir formed by Bai Zhi this time is of extremely high quality. To be more precise, it is a perfect golden elixir.

Such an astonishing achievement is only a hair short of Meng Zhou's.

Such an achievement of forming pills, if placed in the Qingxuan Territory, would definitely cause a huge uproar.

But here, it is such an understatement.

"I formed a golden elixir."

"Um."

Meng Zhou was more concerned about other changes than the quality of Angelica dahurica's elixir.

As Bai Zhi's cultivation broke through from foundation building to pill formation, her artistry also broke through from the second level peak to the third level.

As a result, a series of changes took place in her body.

First of all, the "talent" she was born with, which can ignore any formation restrictions, has undergone wonderful changes and turned into a unique escape method.

Through Bai Zhi's explanation and Meng Zhou's careful investigation, Meng Zhou discovered that her escape method was not on the same track as his Five Elements Escape.

Her special escape method presents a characteristic of "the coexistence of reality and illusion, which can be both real and illusory".

At Meng Zhou's suggestion, this talent was named "True Illusion Escape".

This ability not only gives her the ability to ignore any formation restrictions, but also gives her the ability to "change from illusion to reality" and "from reality to illusion" anytime and anywhere.

With this ability, she can become a "transparent person" or "invisible person" anytime and anywhere.

Not known by others, not seen by others, and not hurt by others.

"Why does this feel more domineering than my Five Elements Escape?" Meng Zhou thought in his heart.

Five Elements Escape is a small magical power.

Then there is the new ability that Bai Zhi originally mastered after building the foundation, "drawing shapes", which has also undergone magical changes with this breakthrough.

When building the foundation, Bai Zhi's "shape drawing" ability was mainly used in two aspects.

First, a large number of spiritual planter skills allowed her to become a spiritual planter.

Another one is the ability related to sound attack and rhythm such as the Hundred Apertures Thunder Sound obtained from Meng Zhou.

Under Meng Zhou's guidance ("fooling"), the art of music and rhythm has gradually become another core pillar of Bai Zhi after the painter.

Moreover, "sound" and "painting" confirm each other, support each other, and refer to each other.

Now, with the breakthrough of Bai Zhi's cultivation from foundation building to pill formation, the spiritual planter and musical abilities that were originally just "drawn" have undergone wonderful changes.

It became an ability that truly belonged to her.

What's the difference?

Bai Zhi can only use various methods mastered through the ability to draw shapes, but he neither knows how to do it nor why.

But it was different now, she not only knew what was happening, but also why.

This change surprised Meng Zhou.

Because this is similar to the "skill talentization" explored by Meng Zhou.

The ability to draw shapes can actually take advantage of the opportunity of a major breakthrough to "change from false to true" and completely turn into something positive.

Compared with his "skill innateization", this "drawing form transformation" has another advantage, that is, it does not require perfect skills.

However, compared with his "skill talent", the shortcomings are also very obvious.

The number of skills that can be mastered through the 'shape drawing' ability at the same time is limited, but for 'skill talent', the upper limit is much higher.

But thinking about it carefully, Meng Zhou discovered that for practitioners other than himself, this shortcoming was really not a shortcoming.

For other monks, it is also not an easy task to cultivate the second-level skills to perfection.
To be continued...